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The three survivors of the Yamamoto mission attack section, Captain Thomas Lanphier (section leader), Lieutenant Besby Holmes, and Lt Rex Barber at Kukum Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 19 Apr 1943.

RAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Bonus Tweet: Did you know the P-38 scored the USAAF's very first aerial kill in the European theater? On August 14, 1942, 2nd Lt. Elza Shahan, flying a Lightning from the 27th FS, teamed up with 2nd Lt. Joseph Shaffer in a P-40 Warhawk to blast a German Fw 200 Condor out of the sky off Iceland. It was also a historic, cross-platform intercept.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning and Spitfire No. W3119 sitting nose to nose on the ground at Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California 1942.

P-38 'Glacier Girl'

Lockheed P-38F Lightning

Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, 347th Fighter Group, 13th Air Force, U.S. Army, flew P-38 Lightning fighters during Operation Vengeance, an April 18, 1943 mission to intercept and shoot down the aircraft carrying Japanese Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

who was on an inspection tour. Seated in the center is Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, who is officially credited with shooting down the plane carrying the admiral. 1943

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P-38 fighters of the 49th Fighter Group of the U.S. Air Force drop tanks of napalm on Japanese positions near Ipo Dam on Luzon. On the left is the plane of group commander Gerald R. "Jerry" Johnson (June 23, 1920 - October 7, 1945). 17.05.1945